Oberonia arcuata Schltr. 1911 SUBGENUS Menophyllum SECTION Otoglossum Schlechter Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Arching Oberonia [refers to the inflorescence]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to an erect, subflexuous, short, densely leafy stem carrying 7 to 8, erect-patent, linear, acute, somewhat falcate-oblique, glabrous leaves that blooms in the spring on an arcuate, short, to 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, subdentate margin, glabrous, more or less equal to the ovary floral bracts and carrying pale terracotta with a yellow spot on the lip.

Schlechter states that the flowers are brown.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; New Papusian Orchid [Neue Orchideen papuasiens J J SMith 1911; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide;

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